Pete LePage Senior Product Manager Microsoft Corporation WUX310

Agenda What are we doing here? 300 Level Session What are they? Why do you want to use them? How would your users use them? How do you implement it? How do I deploy it?

New Services Accelerators, web slices & search providers Accelerators Provide your services from anywhere on the web Web Slices Bring pieces of your site directly to the user Search Providers Provide visual search and search suggestions Create a sticky connection to your user!

Design Principles Simplify a common user pattern Easy for publishers & web developers – no client-side code Works with existing services and sites

Search Providers: Your Favorite Search Engines with Suggestions

Open Search Descriptor My Custom Search <Url type="text/html” template=" <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json” template=" <Url type="application/x-suggestions+xml” template=" <ie:PreviewUrl type="text/html” template="

Adding Your Provider //check the user agent string if client is MSIE 8.0 //for more info: //check if service is already installed window.external.IsSearchProviderInstalled (‘ //if false, display button to add service window.external.AddSearchProvider (‘ ;

Writing Your Own Search Provider

Search Provider Resources Create Your Own Search Provider More Information about Search Descriptor Files Internet Explorer 8 Search Provider Extensibility

Accelerators: Your Favorite Services from Any Webpage

OpenService XML Description Serialize Content Serialize Content Navigate URL HTML Preview Accelerator Results in Situ Install Accelerator Select Content Select Accelerator Execute Accelerator Navigate to Service Accelerators Flow

Accelerators Format Main components of Accelerators Accelerators don’t do any manipulations Can do POST or GET requests Adding a Preview uses a 320x240 window Can send several parameters HighlightedText, {selection} DocumentName, {documentTitle} DocumentDomain, {documentDomain} DocumentHost, {documentHost} Link, {link} LinkText, {linkText} LinkRel, {linkRel} LinkType, {linkType} LinkDomain, {linkDomain} LinkHost, {linkHost}

OpenService Format Map with Live Maps

Accelerator Deployment //check the user agent string if client is MSIE 8.0 //for more info: //check if service is already installed window.external.IsServiceInstalled (‘ ‘category’); //if false, display button to add service window.external.AddService (‘ ;

Writing Your Own Accelerator

Accelerators Summary Accelerators are a light-weight way for users to have easy access to their favorites services from any web page 1.Think about ways to drive users to your site from any webpage: - lookup information (rating, similar information, etc.) - create new content - link sharing 2.Create an Accelerator using the OpenService Format Accelerators are designed to work with today’s services 3.Advertise your Accelerator on your website Installing an Accelerator requires no code deployment

Web Slices: Get Updates to Your Favorites Pieces of The Web

Web Slices

Basic Web Slice

Alternate Update Source

Alternate Display Source

Basic Example Amazon Kindle, Unopened Current bid: US $282.11

Web Slice Parameters hslice entry-title – the title of the feed item entry-content – the description of the feed item ttl – time-to-live value feedurl – alternative path to get updates endtime – the date in which the item is no longer relevant

Web Slices Network management Feed Download Engine checks for updates once a day by default (15 minutes max) Set time-to-live value Updates every 60 mins Provide alternative feed Direct download engine to different source for getting updates Subscribe

Web Slices Privacy and authentication Feeds enable opening web data to users and applications Web Slices are the same as feeds Data is cached on user’s local machine Expose private data through authentication Feeds Platform Auth Support: Persistent cookie based auth On expired cookies, click thru to clip page to re-auth Http based auth (Basic & Digest) Basic auth via SSL Uses saved credentials for background download On failure, user can click thru to page to “fix” problem NTLM (Corporate Scenarios)

Writing Your Own Web Slices

WebSlice Summary Web Slices are a lightweight way for users to stay in touch with your web content Start today: no client-side code required! user notification of updates entice users via preview to click-thru to site

Summary Connect users to your site through Accelerators and Web Slices

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